Thanks guys, sorry I've let people hanging - your ideas have not gone unnoticed. I'll give it a try when i get the time (currently cram studying for CCNA)
I guess Ubuntu 9.10 could be using updated nvidia drivers that don't like my old Nvidia card? i'm not sure, i thought that by default everything started in "vesa" mode when booting from a LiveCD. Anyway I'm prepared to try anything to get this one licked. The more suggestions the better, i'll just list them all up and knock them down all in the once session. Cheers! On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Peter Chubb <[email protected]>wrote: > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Andy <[email protected]> writes: > > Mike> When I boot the LiveCD I get that flashing command line screen > Mike> and I can't enter in anything so I'm unable to enter or read > Mike> anything. I can't get to log files. Even if i try to go directly > Mike> to an install it'll do the same thing. > > Another alternative is during boot, boot to single-user mode (you'll > get a text console). Then you can try to run X and see what the > output is without all the rest of the system. > > PeterC > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
